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Netherlands:16 certified movies
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In this pulse-pounding thriller, photographer Adam (Leigh Whannell) and Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) find themselves in a deadly predicament when they wake up in a large industrial bathroom, chained by their ankles to rusty pipes at opposite corners. Between them is a dead man lying in a pool of blood with a gun in his hand. Neither man knows how they got there and how to get out of the dank chamber alive. Recalling a recent murder investigation by Detectives David Tapp (Danny Glover) and Steve Sing (Ken Leung), Dr. Gordon realizes that their captor is a serial killer known as "Jigsaw" (Tobin Bell) due to his bizarre calling card. The torturer leaves his victims impaled on the horns of a dilemma: to die or to kill another person. This time, the doctor must kill Adam within 8 hours. Else the psychopathic genius will kill both him and Adam; Lawrence's wife Alison (Monica Potter) and his daughter Diana (Makenzie Vega) will also be killed... |
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Wealthy residents of Mexico City are seized with panic as there were twenty-four cases of kidnapping in a six-day period. Terrified to death, many parents hire bodyguards for their offsprings. Former government operative John Creasy (Denzel Washington) reluctantly agrees to take a job as a bodyguard for Pita (Dakota Fanning), a nine-year-old daughter of industrialist Samuel Ramos (Marc Anthony). At first the cold Creasy can hardly tolerate the precocious kid but Pita gradually warms up his heart toward her and they become friends. When the girl is kidnapped, Creasy starts to take vengeance on each one involved in the abduction. |
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A ruthless contract killer Tom Cruise is soon to dispose off five people. He recruits cab driver Max (Jamie Foxx) to drive him through the darkness of nightly Los Angeles, to help him to execute these five in different locations during a ten-hour stretch. Max is to become the unwilling collateral of Tom Cruise's severe and sociopath assassin. Both of them hardly crave for survival as they became dependent on each other when L.A. police depts. try to intercept them on their way from one given destination to another. Cruise is leaving his sweet image for this breathtaking and straight-out movie, Jada Pinkett-Smith breaks the boundaries of the minor role, and L.A. city itself turns into a major character. |
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College freshmen Luke (Corey Sevier) and Roger (Elias Toufexis) are obsessed with thoughts of losing their virginity. When Luke meets two blonde bombshells, Lilly (Stefanie von Pfetten) and Constance (Kim Poirier), he sees it as a chance to become a real man. However, his erotic dreams may not come true. He makes a shocking discovery that the hottest girls have tentacles! Scared to death, Luke starts to suspect that the blondes are aliens. But he discovers the truth only after a series of inexplicable fatal accidents... |
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In this sequel to the 1997 movie 'Anaconda', a scientific expedition sets out on a treacherous journey into the jungles of Borneo to find a rare flower named the Blood Orchid. According to legend, the plant holds the secrets of youth and immortality. The explorers discover that the unique flower truly exists, flourishes for a couple of weeks every seven years, grants strength and longer life to the inhabitants of the jungles including anacondas. These limbs of the devil become bigger, faster and more powerful. En route, the scientists find themselves stalked by monstrous, deadly predators and desperately seek a way out of the rainforest. |
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Paul, a school teacher (Greg Kinnear) and his wife Jessica (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) are distraught after losing their eight-year-old son David in an accident. Dr. Richard Wells (Robert DeNiro) approaches with the incredible and illegal offer to clone Adam, essentially bringing back their boy and reuniting their broken family. After much soul searching, the grieving couple accept Wells' proposal, and, shortly afterward, the new Adam is born. He is seemingly identical to the original Adam and his live and manners are similar to his predecessor until a series of night terrors disturbs him... at the morning of his eighth birthday. Eventually, disturbing differences begin to emerge, Adam's sweetness gradually changes to ill temper. Paul and Jessie discover that Dr. Wells is not a pediatrician, but a geneticist, and that their Faustian pact was a possible mistake. |
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Coconut Beach Resort, a hedonistic paradise for swingers and rastamen, located in Costa Rica, turns into an abode of evil when it is visited by a machete-wielding serial killer. Coconut Pete (Bill Paxton), the owner of the island resort, orders the staff members to figure out the maniac's identity and stop him. However, the number of deaths keeps steadily increasing and the employees desperately try to cover up the murders in order not to lose the guests. |
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It's a prequel to the cult thrillers 'Ginger Snaps' and 'Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed' which focused on two orphaned teenage sisters who became prey to a formidable monster. It's time to learn where the ominous legend of the Beast of Bailey Downs comes from. Set in 19th Century Canada, Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) and Brigitte Fitzgerald (Emily Perkins) find refuge at a trading fort which becomes their only hope of salvation from numerous monstrous werewolves that sieged the city. During one of werewolf attacks, Bridget gets bitten by a bloodthirsty creature... |
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Chris Vaughn (The Rock) is recently retired from the military service, he finds his hometown turned into the place invaded by crime, violence and drugs. Since local Sheriff Bufford Pusser had lost his beloved wife, he is mentally crashed and, in fact, almost inept. Chris finds out, that the man who is guilty of causing such dilapidation of the town is none other than his former school rival keeping the doubtful casino, where an ex of Chris works as a dancer. Jay Hamilton (Neal McDonough), a casino owner, has also closed the lumber mill which caused severe unemployment. Taking on sheriff's duties, Chris, a tough guy with strong military skills, have to try to fight his sweet hometown back. |
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A legendary zombie epic of George Romero has its remake in this impressive thriller which follows a small group of survivors that tries to find shelter from bloodthirsty hordes of decaying zombies in a massive shopping mall. Some plague invaded the Earth, and people, who died from it, aren't strictly dead, but they are terrible walking corpses craving for a living flesh. World is drawn into the despairing chaos when few survivors try to save themselves from the hordes of the dire hungry zombies. How to distinguish a live human from a freshman zombie when a former friend may become the deadly enemy? Will not he stab his teeth in your neck in next moment of a blind, bloodthirsty rage? |
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Sometimes a random phone call can be the last chance to stay alive. Kim Basinger stars as a kidnapped woman who places a call on her cell phone. A young man receives a call on his cellular and figures out that the calling women is kidnapped and her family is under a deadly threat. Situation becomes more complicated when it turns out to be the women don't know where she is and the cellular's battery is about to die. |
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The spawn of the evil Chucky doll is grown up to be a peaceful kind of guy. This time around, after hearing the news of a film being made about his parents' murderous legacy, Glen (Billy Boyd), an orphan offspring, goes to Hollywood, where he promptly brings homicidal Chucky (Brad Dourif) and Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly) back to life. Chucky is seriously disappointed in his son's lack of inherent evil and tries to pass his vast knowledge of all murderous mayhem before Glen becomes some sort of nice guy. Tiff also doesn't hesitate to let her son repudiate their family's most cherished tradition - killing amusements. The action takes place in Hollywood, Jennifer Tilly plays herself becoming an unwitting hostess to the new family in this hilarious horror movie. |
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Based on the 1974 true story, this drama revolves around a paranoid and alienated businessman named Samuel Byck (identified in the film as 'Bicke' and played by Sean Penn) decides to take extreme measures to achieve his version of the American Dream being tired of preying on customers. Rejected for a government loan and spurned by his family, he focuses his resentment on the figurehead of the US capitalist system and obsessively plots his downfall. Just when the nation was feeling safe about boarding airplanes again, a frustrated salesman decided that it was incumbent upon him to rid society of the cancer that infected the seat of power in the United States. That would be Nixon. |
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At the end of World War 2 Hitler tried to find an ideal weapon and turned to the powers of darkness. Ritual, started by the occult monk and the Nazi scientists, was interrupted by American agents, who had found a horned demonic child at the place where the ritual was held. Later, the benevolent Professor Bruttenholm raised the demonic child called Hellboy (Ron Perlman) to be a hero, who helps to investigate the supernatural in Dr. Bruttenholm's secret Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense (B.P.R.D.). Along with the amphibious psychic Abe Sapien (Doug Jones, voiced by David Hyde Pierce) and the fire-throwing Liz Sherman (Selma Blair), Hellboy is joined by new recruit John Myers (Rupert Evans), a naive and idealistic FBI agent. Evil monk rises again, putting mankind on a brink of destruction as he has drawn a new demonic being called Samael into our world. Meanwhile, a love triangle emerges in the story as Myers, the FBI agent becomes Hellboy's rival for Liz's affections. Guillermo del Toro's wisecracking and eccentric film is based on the comic book series by Mike Mignola. |
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Frank Castle's family was murdered as a payback for his final FBI undercover assignment when the son of a criminal-minded, ruthless businessman named Howard Saint (John Travolta) was mistakenly killed by Castle. He had lost any confidence in the police & courts to put the killer of the family and his thugs behind the bars and aims to wreak vengeance by tracking down the offenders responsible for the demise. He has no superpowers to battle the evil he sees - only his ferocious intelligence, his years of fighting experience and, above all, his iron determination to avenge those rejected by society's criminals. Dave (Ben Foster), Bumpo (John Pinette), and Joan (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) are the Castle's fellow outcasts combined with him to get the job done as he hunts down Saint. Thrilling stunt work, gunfights, and huge explosions are abundant in this creation of Jonathan Hensleigh's directorial mind. |
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A man who had conquered 90% of the known world by the age of twenty-five, Alexander the Great (Colin Farrell) was one of history's most luminous and influential leaders who forged an empire stretching from Greece to India in the fourth century B.C. His conquests facilitated the promotion of Greek culture, and, centuries later, the spread of Christianity, and the expansion of the great Roman Empire. Young King of Macedonia had conquered almost the entire known world of his era, before dying at the age of 32. This epic movie follows him, his family, his allies, foes, ventures and achievements. |
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In the years following World War II Father Lankester Merrin (Stellan Skarsgard) is haunted by memories of brutality of his war. He can no longer honestly call himself a man of God since he was occasionally forced to participate in a Nazi crime. He tries to escape his memories travelling through far countries. In Cairo he meets a collector of rare antiquities who have unearthed a Christian church in the remote region of Kenya. The church seemed to be buried at the same day it was built. The collector wants Merrin, an Oxford-educated archeologist, to find some ancient artefact hidden within the church before the British discover it. But while investigating, they find out that the church was built to protect the area against an evil force, which has been buried long ago and eventually released along the excavations. The horror has only just begun. |
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This fantastic thriller bears strong resemblance to the "Cube" and "Pi" movies, and, at some points, lets us feel the paranoid atmosphere of Kafka's books. This ominous and ingenious film is one of the most outstanding indie projects, a "Sundance" and "Fant-Asia" festivals nominee. Simon (Jeremy Sisto), a young programmer, finds an unexpected package in his room, and, when the box is opened, he finds himself surrounded by strange events and obsessed by sudden wishes. Being a test subject in a dangerous experiment testing a new advertising scheme, Simon turns out to be plagued by mysteriously empty brown packages, a sense of paranoia and a craving to drink lots and lots of milk. |
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Ten years ago some of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind took place in the country of Rwanda--and in an era of high-speed communication and round the clock news, the events went almost unnoticed by the rest of the world. In only three months, one million people were brutally murdered. In the face of these unspeakable actions, inspired by his love for his family, an ordinary man summons extraordinary courage to save the lives of over a thousand helpless refugees, by granting them shelter in the hotel he manages. |
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Molly Keller, a direct descendant of Jack the Ripper is sentenced to an insane asylum after a series of brutal murders. She is drawn into an unconventional experiment in Prague, in the Weisser Institute, where she is to enter a virtual world where the line between what's real and what's not is almost impossible to distinguish. Other patients are involved in experiment too, and soon it turns out to be too dangerous when some of them begin to die. Molly knows that the Ripper's consciousness might be still alive and she thinks that death can be the only way to stop the murders. |
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